Create and read symbolic links in Windows

Thanks for the suggestions. In windows (Windows 7, 64-bit), I couldn't
get "file.symlink" to work, but "file.link" did return the result to be
"TRUE" but at the target location, I did not see any link.

Not sure I am missing anything more.. Hope it's nothing to do with
administrator accounts and administrator rights... Is it something I
should check with my system administrator?

Thanks,
Santosh


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:

    On 02/05/2013 19:50, Santosh wrote:

        Dear Rxperts..
        Got a couple of quick q's..
        I am using R in windows environment (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
        a) Is there a way to create symbolic links to some data files?


    See ?file.symlink.  ??'symbolic link' should have got you there.

    Note that this is not very useful for files, but that is a Windows
    and not an R restriction.

     > b) How do I read data from symbolic links?

    The same ways you read data from files.


        Thanks so much..
        Santosh



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